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Lars' projects beside Metallica
The NWOBHM - Revisited
In 1990, almost ten years after the glory days of the NWOBHM in
the time before Metallica began to work on the black album, he put
out a sampler with bands who had influenced his style of music.
Like: Diamond Head, Iron Maiden (etc.). The name of this double
album was: 'NWOBHM - Revisited'
Diamond Head - Reformation - 'Death and Progress'
In 1993 in the time when 'Diamond Head' was reforming the band,
he advised Diamond Head on their LP - 'Death and Progress'.
Mercyful Fate - 'Return of the Vampires'
In 1993, Lars played the drums on a remake of Mercyful Fate's song
'Return of the Vampire' on the 'In the Shadows' album.
Bands Lars has played live with
Kid Rock, Lars Ulrich & Kirk Hammett
Burbanks, CA - XX xx, 2000
Kirk and Lars played "American Badass" with Kid Rock on
Jay Lenos' "The Tonight Show". There were 3 guitarists
on stage so Kirk just played "co-rythm" and Lars played
drums. During the song's bells part, Kid Rock said "This is
the twisted brown trucker band with the pioneers of this music:
Metallica.". After the song Lars got up, gave Leno a hand shake
and hugged kid rock after the commercial break during the 10 second
interview lars was on Kid Rock's lap.
Grand Slam Jam
'Club Antones' Austin, Texas - December 14, 2000
After the "Grand Slam Jam Tennis Shootout" in which Lars
teamed up with John McEnroe as his partner in two double matches,
first against tennis player Jim Courier and REM bassist, Mike Mills
and then against Andre Agassi and Paul O'Neill of the New York Yankees
(Lars and John won both maches) Lars (on drums) did a once-in-a-lifetime
jam together with John McEnroe (guitar/vocals), Mike Mills (keyboard)
and Jim Courier (guitar). They jamed songs like "Sweet Home
Alabama" (Lynyrd Skynyrd), "Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck
Berry), Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" (Hendrix) for about
half an hour.
Projects of "The Music Company"
Ulrich founded his music label "The Music Company" in
1998 with a former Metallica tour accountant, Tim Duffy. The Music
Company is distributed by Metallica's label Elektra. Below you'll
find some info about the bands who were signed by The Music Company.
DDT - 'Urban Observer'
The canadian quinted 'DDT' from Vancouver is the first band which
was signed on The Music Company label where they released their
debut album "Urban Observer," in August of 1999.
Their music is described as a mixture of rap, ska and hip-hop with
punk attitudes included in their lyrics.
Goudie - 'Peep Show'
Goudie [rhymes with 'howdy'] was discovered in the spring of 1998
at the South by Southwest music conference in their hometown of
Austin, Texas. Their new CD, "Peep Show", was released
in July 2000.
Their music is described as sounding a little bit similar to bands
like Radiohead, Placebo and Remy Zero.
official website: Goudie
Systematic
The foursome band Systematic from Oakland, California recorded their
debut album (untitled yet) in the end of 2000. Lars checked in for
some time during the recordings. Their first demo song was called
"Crawl Space".
Their music can be described as being similar to so-called "new
metal" bands.
official website: Systematic
Brand New Immortals
The Brand New Immortals are based in Atlanta, Georgia consist of
Johnny Colt (formerly of The Black Crowes), David Ryan Harris (formerly
of Follow for Now) and KC Threshold. They were brought to The Music
Co by Brendan O'Brien (R.A.T.M, Stone Temple Pilots, Korn, Pearl
Jam, etc.) who produced their demos. Their first song which was
released for radio airplay was "Reasons Why". Their debut
album was released in March or April 2001.
official website: Brand
New Immortals
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